The NFL's Naked Greed
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NFL teams may have to stop ripping off their cheerleaders"
If the Buffalo Jills cheerleaders have to live by a strict code of conduct that dictates their appearance, eating habits — and even how they use feminine products — then they also have the right to sue their football team over lousy pay, a New York state judge ruled.
The Buffalo Bills had argued that the cheerleaders had no labor rights under state law because they were “independent contractors,” not employees.
Erie County Judge Timothy Drury disagreed, saying there was nothing “independent” about an official rulebook that governs the women’s personal and professional lives down to their underwear.
A section of the cheerleaders’ 2013-14 handbook titled “General hygiene & lady body maintenance” includes the instruction, “Intimate areas: Never use a deodorant or chemically enhanced product. Simple nondeodorant soap will help maintain the right PH balance.”
The book also tells the grown women to replace their tampons “at least every four hours” when menstruating.
“Always shower after a workout and change undergarments, the guide says, adding “Don’t use lufa’s [sic] or sponges. They hold TONS of germs! Throw them away now!”
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The directions come from the wife of an NFL official, most likely.
Bad NFL. Bad. These girls all could have been happy hookers! Oppression!!
* If those suggestions are all it takes to make you an employee, then we are all Federal employees.
*Don't the Boy scouts and many other voluntary groups instruct pretty much the same and more?
*Why isn't a woman's willingness to do anything to get these positions just to be seen and hopefully get rich and famous called naked greed? They are not doing it for our benefit or out of altruism.
*How much would you pay for a job millions are willing and able to do for free?
If the gas station across the street is offering free gas, do you go there and inist on paying full price?
Should rock stars pay their groupies?
I think the cheerleaders should be paying the team for the opportunity, just like the other advertisers.
Since seven teams don't even have squads, do they even exist for the sake of the teams, and who is more impacted by their presence or absence: the team or the cheerleaders?
I love cheerleaders - but they don't love me. Maybe it's my big mouth.
It all comes down to not having the muscle, like the players, to bargain for their worth.
Not having muscle means their worth to the team does not exist, so why should the team pay for it. In the right transaction these women have near unlimited power - the transaction just isn't this one with the teams - simple supply and demand. The purpose of unions and many labor laws is to lock out the competition. If they have something rare and valuable they would have no problem getting paid for it. In fact, call me ladies.
What someone gets paid is based on their value to the paying party, modified by the availability of alternatives. Once we abandon that principle, there is no reason they should not get the same as the players. I enjoy the cheerleaders more personally, and if given a choice would pay more to watch them cheer than to watch the players knock each other down, but that's just me. My hobby is playing fantasy cheer leading.
I've been paid as low as $1.15/hr,and I've never been underpaid. I'm quite sure I have been overpaid plenty of times, but that's asking for trouble. Funny thing is that the only jobs I've lost were the ones where I was paid very low, which means even then I was overpaid. Sometimes I was near worthless. Dust to dust - ashes to ashes.
What the heck's your problem, Lem. How can you possibly put up an NFL cheerleader post without pics? Get on the ball, man, we're depending on you.
"My hobby is playing fantasy cheer leading."
We need pics here too.
Here you go Rabel:
Cheerleader
Go Big Blue.
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